Government

The current Mayor of Lansing is Patrica Eidam. The Village Administrator is Dan Podgorski. The Village Clerk is Vivian Payne.[4]Lansing is in theIllinois' 2nd congressional district. Lansing is a home rule community.

History

The first family to settle in Lansing was that of August Hildebrandt in 1843. Henry, George, and John Lansing settled the area in 1846, which was incorporated in 1893. Early settlement in the village was primarily by Dutchand Germanimmigrants. Industrial development of the surrounding Calumet region attracted immigrants from Irelandand Eastern Europeto the village in the 20th century. These settlement patterns are reflected in Lansing's current demographics; according to the census[5]of 2000, the top five non African-American ancestries in Lansing were German (17%), Polish (13%), Irish (13%), Dutch (11%), and Italian (7%).